Dorothy Kelly

Arqus European University Alliance, Spain

Dorothy Kelly is a professor of Translation at the University of Granada (Spain), where she was also Vice Rector for Internationalization from 2008 to 2023. 
She was Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group of Universities from 2010 until 2017 and was a member of Spain's national Bologna Experts Team from 2010 to 2013. She was a member of the Board of the Committee for Internationalization and Development Cooperation at the Spanish Rectors’ Conference between 2008 and 2023. She is a member of the Advisory Group on Higher Education to the Steering Committee for Education (CDEDU) of the Council of Europe. 
Since 2018, she has been the coordinator of Arqus, one of the first 17 European University Alliances to be approved by the European Commission and composed by the universities of Graz, Leipzig, Lyon 1, Maynooth, Minho, Padua, Vilnius and Wrocław, along with Granada. 
 

Rita Dias

Erasmus Student Network, Portugal

Rita is 28 and comes from the coast of Portugal. She has a bachelor's in Poli:cal Science and Interna:onal Rela:ons and a Master's in Public Policy. Rita did her Erasmus in Leuven, Belgium, and worked at the United States Embassy in Lisbon in 2018 and in the Poli:cal Observatory in the Associa:on for Poli:cal Studies and Scien:fical Research in 2020. She joined ESN in 2018 when she moved to Lisbon to start her master's. She held several posi:ons in the network, such as President of Portugal and Liaison Officer for Inclusive Mobility. As president, she is responsible for the general coordina:on of the organisa:on, external rela:ons, policy, and advocacy. Her main priori:es include increasing par:cipa:on in learning mobility and fostering civic engagement and par:cipa:on of young people through Erasmus.

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Tine Delva

European Commission, Belgium

Tine Delva works as deputy Head of Unit in the higher education department of the Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC). Tine is fully involved in the European Universities initiative and the European strategy for universities, as well as in the Erasmus+ programme. Before, Tine worked in the economic department of the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, where she was contributing to the work of the European Commission in areas such as economic governance and the EU follow-up to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Before Tine entered the European Commission, she was a cabinet member of two Members of the European Parliament. Tine has an academic background in economics, complemented with European affairs. She is co-author of the book "The functioning of Europe, after Lisbon" (2010, 2015, in Dutch).